Unit 1
What are the reasons for the seasons?
Earth's tilt and REVOLUTION
Name and Describe the 3 types of plate boundaries.
Convergent - collide, Divergent - divide, Transform - slide
What is the difference in a lake and pond?
As pressure increases, _____ increases?
Density
What Biome in which do we live in NC? And describe the biome.
Temperate Deciduous Forest
There is a depiction of earth that is all shaded. What season is being reflected?
Fall (autumn)
Name the 3 types of volcanoes.
Shield, Cinder cone, Composite or strato.
In the ocean, where is life most abundant?
Coral reef
What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere and at what percent does it exist?
Nitrogen, 78%
Describe an Altostratus cloud and its elevation level.
Medium level, sheet cloud that is 6,000-20,000 feet in elevation.
Name, in order the 3 atmospheric layers of the Sun that goes from nearest to furthest.
Photosphere, Chromosphere and Corona.
How many steps are there in the rock cycle? What are the steps in order?
(5) Heats, melts, cools, breaks down, and reassembles.
Name and describe the steps of the water cycle
4. Evaporation (transpiration also) water turns into gas, Condensation (gas into liquid; forms clouds), Precipitation (rain, hail, sleet or snow), Collection (runoff or ground infiltration)
Name and describe the blended layer of the atmosphere.
Ionosphere, mix between mesosphere and thermosphere. Has a high concentration of ions and free electrons and is able to reflect radio waves.
Name and describe the 3 types of Symbiotic Relationships.
Mutualism (both benefit), Parasitism (One benefits and one is harmed) , Commensalism (one benefits and the other is neither harmed or benefits)
How man phases of the moon are there. Name, in order, each phase of the moon.
8. New moon, waxing crescent, 1st quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, wanning gibbous, 3rd quarter, wanning crescent.
How many types of rock are there? Name the process in which these rocks are created.
3. Metamorphic - heat and pressure. Sedimentary - weathering. Igneous (2 types) Magma (Intrusive) cools, Lava (Extrusive) cools.
What is the zone of aeration?
The zone above the zone of saturation in which pores are filled with air and water (aka they are damp, not fully saturated).
Name the 3 major Environmental Issues.
Pollution, Population growth, Resource Use.
What is the significance of phytoplankton?
It provides 50% of the oxygen we breathe
Describe a neap tide and a spring tide. What moon phases do they happen during?
Neap tide is where the sun, moon and earth are aligned at 90 degree angles. Happens during the 1st and 3rd quarter moons. Spring Tide is where the sun, moon and earth are aligned. Happens during a new and full moon.
Describe an epicenter.
Point of origin of an earthquake directly above the focus. Epicenter is AT THE SURFACE.
What are the 3 things that affect surface water currents? ALSO, how many total types of currents are there?
Coriolis Effect, Continental Deflections, Global Winds. 2 types (Deep ocean currents)
Name and describe the layers of the atmosphere.
5 - Troposphere (where we live; 10% ozone), Stratosphere (90% ozone layer), Mesosphere (coldest layer; where meteors burn up), Thermosphere (hottest and thiccckest layer; northern lights) Exosphere (thinnest layer; extends into outer space)
Name and describe the 5 types of Air masses (will get credit for 4).
Maritime polar = Cold air mass formed over water
Maritime tropical = Warm air mass formed over land
Continental polar = Cold air mass formed over land
Continental tropical = War air mass formed over water
Continental Artic = Cold air mass formed the north pole